From SHSU, an award winning university, two Sam Houston State University College of Criminal Justice doctoral students have received awards from the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Both students are recognized for their research in the criminal justice field.
Ghady Hbeilini has been awarded the Graduate Fellowship for Global Research from the ASC Division of International Criminology. The award includes a $1,000 prize to support his doctoral dissertation, “Culture, Institutions, and Anomie on Terrorism: Accounting for Global Anomie within the Middle East and North African Region.”
Kelsey Kramer has been awarded the Dr. Anat Kimchi Memorial Graduate Travel Award from the ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing. The award is given to doctoral students who plan to present quantitative, data-driven research on topics related to corrections and sentencing, including recidivism and the study of formal institutions of social control.
Kramer and Hbeilini received their awards during the 2024 ASC annual meeting in November, which was held in San Francisco. Both say they walked away from the experience encouraged.
